it be known what is spoken for ye shall speak into the air 10 There are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me 12 Even so ye forasmuch as ye are zealous †Gr. of spirits of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret 14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prayeth but my understanding is unfruitful 15 What is it then I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding also 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest 17 For thou verily givest thanks well but the other is not edified 18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more then you all 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that by my voice I might teach others also then ten thousand words in an unknown tongue 20 Brethren be not children in understanding howbeit in malice * Matth. 18.3 be ye children but in understanding be †Gr. perfect or of a ripe age men 21 In the law it is * Isa 28.11 written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people and yet for all that will they not hear me saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a signe not to them that beleeve but to them that beleeve not but prophesying serveth not for them that beleeve not but for them which beleeve 23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place and all speak with tongues there come in those that are unlearned or unbeleevers will they not say that ye are mad 24 But if all prophesie and there come in one that beleeveth not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth 26 How is it then brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a psalm hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a revelation hath an interpretation Let all things be done to edifying 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue let it be by two or at the most by three and that by course and let one interpret 28 But if there be no interpreter let him keep silence in the church and let him speak to himself and to God 29 Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judge 30 If any thing be revealed to another that fitteth by let the first hold his peace 31 For ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets 33 For God is not the authour of †Gr. tumult or unquietness confusion but of peace as in all churches of the saints 34 * 1 Tim. 2.12 Let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the * Gen. 3.16 law 35 And if they will learn any thing let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the church 36 What came the word of God out from you or came it unto you onely 37 If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 38 But if any man be ignorant let him be ignorant 39 Wherefore brethren covet to prophesie and forbid not to speak with tongues 40 Let all things be done decently and in order CHAP. XV. 3 By Christs resurrection 12 he proveth the necessity of our resurrection against all such as deny the resurrection of the body 21 The fruit 35 and manner thereof 51 and of the changing of them that shall be found alive at the last day MOreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you which also you have received and wherein ye stand 2 By which also ye are saved if ye ‖ Or bold fast keep in memory †Gr. by what speech what I preached unto you unless ye have beleeved in vain 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins * Isa 53.5 6 c. according to the scriptures 4 And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day * Psal 16.10 according to the scriptures 5 * John 20.19 And that he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve 6 After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some are faln asleep 7 After that he was seen of James then of all the apostles 8 * Acts 9.4 Chap. 9.1 And last of all he was seen of me also as of ‖ Or an â—â—ortive one born out of due time 9 For I am the least of the apostles that am not meet to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain but I laboured more abundantly then they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me 11 Therefore whether it were I or they so we preach and so ye beleeved 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead then is Christ not risen 14 And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain 15 Yea and we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up if so he that the dead rise not 16 For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised 17 And if Christ be not raised your faith is vain ye are yet in your sins 18 Then they also which are faln asleep in Christ are perished 19 If in this life onely we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead and become * Col. 1.28 Rev. 1.5 the first-fruits of them that slept 21 For since by man came death by man came also the
not stumble 13 Take fast hold of instruction let her not go keep her for she is thy life 14 ¶ * Psal 1.1 Chap. 1.10 15. Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men 15 Avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away 16 For they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble 20 ¶ My son attend to my words incline thine ear unto my sayings 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart 22 For they are life unto those that finde them and †Heb. â—â—u licine health to all their flesh 23 ¶ Keep thy heart †Heb. above all keeping with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life 24 Put away from thee †Heb. forwardness of mouth and pereversness of lips a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee 25 Let thine eyes look right on and let thine eye-lids look straight before thee 26 Ponder the path of thy feet and ‖ Or all thâ— ways shall be ordered aright let all thy ways be established 27 * Deut. 5.32 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy foot from evil CHAP. V. 1 Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom 3 He sheweth the mischief of wheredom and riot 15 He exhorteth to contentedness liberality and chastity 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins MY son attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding 2 That thou mayest regard discretion and that thy lips may keep knowledge 3 ¶ * Chap. 2.16 and 6.24 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb and her †Heb. palate mouth is smoother then oyl 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood sharp as a two-edged sword 5 * Chap 7.27 Her feet go down to death her steps take hold on hell 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life her ways are moveable that thou canst not know them 7 Hear me now therefore O ye children and depart not from the words of my mouth 8 Remove thy way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel 10 Lest strangers be filled with †Heb. thy strength thy wealth and thy labours be in the house of a stranger 11 And thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed 12 And say How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets 17 Let them be onely thine own and not strangers with thee 18 Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoyce with the wife of thy youth 19 Let her be as the loving hinde and pleasant roe let her breasts †Heb. water thee satisfie thee at all times and †Heb. err thou always â—â—s her love be thou ravisht always with her love 20 And why wilt thou my son be ravisht with a strange woman and embrace the bosom of a stranger 21 * Job 31.4 34.21 Chap. 15.3 Jer. 16.17 32.19 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD and he pondereth all his goings 22 ¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself and he shall be holden with the cords of his †Heb. sin sins 23 He shall die without instruction and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray CHAP. VI. 1 Against suretiship 6 idleness 12 and mischievousness 16 Seven things hateful to God 20 The blessings of obedience 25 The mischiefs of whoredom MY son if thou be surety for thy friend if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth thou art taken with the words of thy mouth 3 Do this now my son and deliver thy self when thou art come into the hand of thy friend go humble thy self ‖ Or so shalt thou prevail with thy friend and make sure thy friend 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye-lids 5 Deliver thy self as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler 6 ¶ Go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise 7 Which having no guide overseer or ruler 8 Provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest 9 * Chap. 24.33 How long wilt thou sleep O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep 10 Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep 11 * Chap. 13.4 20.4 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy want as an armed man 12 ¶ A naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth 13 He winketh with his eyes he speaketh with his feet he teacheth with his fingers 14 Frowardness is in his heart he deviseth mischief continually he †Heb. casteth forth soweth discord 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without remedy 16 ¶ These six things doth the LORD hate yea seven are an abomination †Heb. of his soul unto him 17 †Heb. haughty eyes A proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent bloud 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations * Rom. 3.15 feet that be swift in running to mischief 19 A false witness that speaketh lies and him that soweth discord among brethren 20 ¶ * Chap. 1.8 My son keep thy fathers commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother 21 Binde them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck 22 When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee 23 * Psal 19.8 119.105 For the commandment is a ‖ Or candle lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life 24 * Chap. 2.16 5.3 7.5 To keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery ‖ Or of the strange tongue of the tongue of a strange woman 25 * Mat. 5.28 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eye-lids 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man
Christ 6 Now we command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye withdraw your selves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us 7 For your selves know how ye ought to follow us for we behaved not our selves disorderly among you 8 Neither did we eat any mans bread for nought but wrought with labour and travel night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you 9 Not because we have not power but to make our selves an ensample unto you to follow us 10 For even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat 11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly working not at all but are busie-bodies 12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread 13 But ye brethren * Gal. 6.9 ‖ Or faint not be not weary in well-doing 14 And if any man obey not our word ‖ Or signifie tha◠man by an epistle by this epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed 15 Yet count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother 16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means The Lord be with you all 17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand which is the token in every epistle so I write 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen ¶ The second epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens ¶ The first epistle of PAUL the Apostle to TIMOTHY CHAP. I. 1 Timothy is put in minde of the charge which was given unto him by Paul at his going to Macedonia 5 Of the right use and end of the law 11 Of S. Pauls calling to be an apostle 20 and of Hymeneus and Alexander PAul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope 2 Unto Timothy my own son in the faith Grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine 4 * Chap. 4.7 and 6.4 2 Tim. 2.23 Tit. 1.14 and 3.9 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather then godly edifying which is in faith so do 5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned 6 From which some ‖ Or not ayming it having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm 8 But we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully 9 Knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and profane for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers for manslayers 10 For whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for men-stealers for liars for perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust 12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful putting me into the ministery 13 Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus 15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that * Matth. 9.13 Mark 2.17 Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief 16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter beleeve on him to life everlasting 17 Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the onely wise God be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen 18 This charge I commit unto thee son Timothy according to the prophesies which went before on thee that thou by them mightest war a good warfare 19 Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack 20 Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have * 1 Cor. 5.5 delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme CHAP. II. 1 That it is meet to pray and give thanks for all men and the reason why 9 How women should be attired 12 They are not permitted to teach 15 They shall be saved notwithstanding the testimonies of Gods wrath in child-birth if they continue in faith I ‖ Or desire Exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men 2 For kings and for all that are in ‖ Or eminent place authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 4 Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth 5 For there is one God and one mediatour between God and men the man Christ Jesus 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all ‖ Or a testimony to be testified in due time 7 * 2 Tim. 1.11 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle I speak the truth in Christ and lie not a teacher of the Gentiles in faith verity 8 I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting 9 In like manner also that * 1 Pet. 3.3 women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety not with ‖ Or plaited broidered hair or gold or pearls or costly aray 10 But which becometh women professing godliness with good works 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection 12 But * 1 Cor 14 34. I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence 13 For Adam was first formed then Eve 14 And Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety CHAP. III. 1 How bishops and deacons and their wives should be qualified 14 and to what end S. Paul wrote to Timothy of these things 15 Of the church and the blessed truth therein taught and professed THis is a true saying If a man desire the office of a bishop he desireth a good work 2 * Tit. 1 6◠c. A bishop then must
Levit. 24.17 He that smiteth a man so that he die shall be surely put to death 13 And if a man lie not in wait but God deliver him into his hand then * Deu. 19.3 I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die 15 ¶ And he that smiteth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death 16 ¶ And he that stealeth a man and selleth him or if he be found in his hand he shall surely be put to death 17 ¶ And * Lev. 20.9 Prov. 20.20 Mat. 15.4 Mar. 7.10 he that ‖ Or revileth curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death 18 ¶ And it men strive together and one smite ‖ Or his neighbour another with a stone or with his fist and he die not but keepeth his bed 19 If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff then shall he that smote him be quit onely he shall pay for †Heb. his ceasing the loss of his time and shall cause him to be throughly healed 20 ¶ And if a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod and he die under his hand he shall be surely †Heb. avenged punished 21 Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two he shall not be punished for he is his money 22 ¶ If men strive and hurt a woman with childe so that her fruit depart from her and yet no mischief follow he shall be surely punished according as the womans husband will lay upon him and he shall pay as the judges determine 23 And if any mischief follow then thou shalt give life for life 24 * Levit. 24.20 Deut. 19.21 Mat. 5.38 Eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot 25 Burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe 26 ¶ And if a man smite the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid that it perish he shall let him go free for his eyes sake 27 And if he smite out his man-servants tooth or his maid-servants tooth he shall let him go free for his tooths sake 28 ¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die then * Gen. 9.5 the ox shall be surely stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten but the owner of the ox shall be quit 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past and it hath been testified to his owner and he hath not kept him in but that he hath killed a man or a woman the ox shall be stoned and his owner also shall be put to death 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him 31 Whether he have gored a son or have gored a daughter according to this judgement shall it be done unto him 32 If the ox shall push a man-servant or maid-servant he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver the ox shall be stoned 33 ¶ And if a man shall open a pit or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an ass fall therein 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto the owner of them and the dead beast shall be his 35 ¶ And if one mans ox hurt anothers that he die then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money of it and the dead ox also they shall divide 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past and his owner hath not kept him in he shall surely pay ox for ox and the dead shall be his own CHAP. XXII 1 Of theft 5 Of damage 7 Of trespasses 14 Of borrowing 16 Of fornication 18 Of witchcraft 19 Of bestiality 20 Of idolatry 21 Of strangers widows and fatherless 25 Of usury 26 Of pledges 28 Of reverence to magistrates 29 Of the first-fruits IF a man shall steal an ox or a ‖ Or goat sheep and kill it or sell it he shall restore five oxen for an ox and * 2 Sam 12.6 four sheep for a sheep 2 ¶ If a thief he found breaking up and be smitten that he die there shall no bloud be shed for him 3 If the sun be risen upon him there shall be bloud shed for him for he should make full restitution if he have nothing then he shall be sold for his theft 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive whether it be ox or ass or sheep he shall restore double 5 ¶ If a man shall cause a field or vine-yard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another mans field of the best of his own field of that best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution 6 ¶ If fire break out and catch in thorns so that the stacks of corn or the standing-corn or the field be consumed therewith he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitâ—tion 7 ¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep and it be stoln out of the mans house if the thief be found let him pay double 8 If the thief be not found then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbours goods 9 For all manner of trespass whether it be for ox for ass for sheep for raiment or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his the cause of both parties shall come before the judges and whom the judges shall condemn he shall pay double unto his neighbour 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep it die or be hurt or driven away no man seeing it 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbours goods and the owner of it shall accept thereof and he shall not make it good 12 And * Gen. 31.39 if it be stoln from him he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof 13 If it be torn in pieces then let him bring it for witness and he shall not make good that which was torn 14 ¶ And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour and it he hurt or die the owner thereof being not with it he shall surely make it good 15 But if the owner thereof be with it he shall not make it good if it be an hired thing â—t came for his hire 16 ¶ And * Deut. 22.28 if a man intice a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her he shall surely endow her â—o be his wife 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him he shall †Heb. weigh pay money according to
keep mine ordinances to walk therein I am the LORD your God 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgements * Ezek. 20.11 Rom. 10.5 Gal. 3.12 which if a man do he shall live in them I am the LORD 6 ¶ None of you shall approach to any that is †Heb. remainder of his flesh near of kin to him to uncover their nakedness I am the LORD 7 The nakedness of thy father or the nakedness of thy mother shalt thou not uncover she is thy mother thou shalt not uncover her nakedness 8 * Chap. 20.11 The nakedness of thy fathers wife shalt thou not uncover it is thy fathers nakedness 9 The nakedness of thy sister the daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother whether she be born at home or born abroad even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover 10 The nakedness of thy sons daughter or of thy daughters daughter even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover for theirs is thine own nakedness 11 The nakedness of thy fathers wives daughter begotten of thy father she is thy sister thou shalt not uncover her nakedness 12 * Chap. 20.19 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy fathers sister she is thy fathers near kinswoman 13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mothers sister for she is thy mothers near kinswoman 14 * Chap. 20.20 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy fathers brother thou shalt not approach to his wife she is thine aunt 15 * Chap. 20.12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law she is thy sons wife thou shalt not uncover her nakedness 16 * Chap. 20.21 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brothers wife it is thy brothers nakedness 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman her daughter neither shalt thou take her sons daughter or her daughters daughter to uncover her nakedness for they are her near kinswomen it is wickedness 18 Neither shalt thou take ‖ Or one wife to another a wife to her sister to vex her to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life time 19 * Chap. 20. â—8 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness 20 Moreover thou shalt not he carnally with thy neighbours wife to defile thyself with her 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed * Chap. 20.2 2 Kings 23.10 pass through the fire to * Called Acts 7.43 Molech Molech neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God I am the LORD 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankinde as with womankinde it is abomination 23 * Chap. 20.15 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to â—â—â—e thyself therewith neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto it is confusion 24 Defile not you your selves in any of these things for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you 25 And the land is defiled therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land it self vomiteth out her inhabitants 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgements and shall not commit any of these abominations neither any of your own nation nor any stranger that sojourneth among you 27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you and the land is defiled 28 That the land spue not you out also when ye defile it as it spaed out the natâ—ons that were before you 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs which were commâ—tted before you that ye defile not your selves therein I am the LORD your God CHAP. XIX 1 A repetition of sundry laws ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel and say unto them * Chap. 11.44 20. â— 1 Pet. 1.16 Ye shall be holy for I the LORD your God am holy 3 ¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths I am the LORD your God 4 Turn ye not unto idols nor make to your selves molten gods I am the LORD your God 5 ¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD ye shall offer it at your own will 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it and on the morrow and if ought remain until the third day it shall be burnt in the fire 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day it is abominable it shall not be accepted 8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from among his people 9 ¶ And * Chap. 23.22 when ye reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger I am the LORD your God 11 ¶ Ye shall not steal neither deal falsly neither lie one to another 12 ¶ And ye shall not * Ex. 20.7 Deut. 5.11 Mat. 5.34 Jam. 5.12 swear by my name falsly neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God I am the LORD 13 ¶ * Ecclus 10.6 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour neither rob him * Deut. 24.14 15. â—ob 4.14 the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning 14 ¶ Thou shalt not curse the deaf * Deut. 27.18 nor put a stumbling-block before the blinde but shalt fear thy God I am the LORD 15 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement thou shalt not * Exod. 23.3 Deut. 1 1â— and 16 19. Prov. 24.23 James 2.9 respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour 16 ¶ Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people neither shalt thou stand against the bloud of thy neighbour I am the LORD 17 ¶ * 1 Joh. 2.11 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart * Ecclus 19.13 Mat. 18.15 thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour ‖ Or that thou bear not sin for him and not suffer sin upon him 18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people * Mat. 5.43 and 22.39 Rom. 13.9 Gal. 5.14 James 2.8 but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the LORD 19 ¶ Ye shall keep my statutes Thou shalt not let thy cattel gender with a diverse kinde Thou
thou and I have spoken of behold the LORD be between thee and me for ever 24 ¶ So David hid himself in the field and when the new-moon was come the king sat him down to eat meat 25 And the king sat upon his seat as at other times even upon a seat by the wall and Jonathan arose and Abner sat by Sauls side and Davids place was empty 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day for he thought Some thing hath befaln him he is not clean surely he is not clean 27 And it came to pass on the morrow which was the second day of the moneth that Davids place was empty and Saul said unto Jonathan his son Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat neither yesterday nor to day 28 And Jonathan answered Saul David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem 29 And he said Let me go I pray thee for our family hath a sacrifice in the city and my brother he hath commanded me to be there and now if I have found favour in thine eyes let me get away I pray thee and see my brethren Therefore he cometh not unto the kings table 30 Then Sauls anger was kindled against Jonathan and he said unto him ‖ Or Thou perverse rebel †Heb. Son of perverse rebellion Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion and unto the confusion of thy mothers nakedness 31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground thou shalt not be established nor thy kingdom wherefore now send and fetch him unto me for he †Heb. is the son of death shall surely die 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father and said unto him Wherefore shall he be slain what hath he done 33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David 34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger and did eat no meat the second day of the moneth for he was grieved for David because his father had done him shame 35 ¶ And it came to pass in the morning that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David and a little lad with him 36 And he said unto his lad Run finde out now the arrows which I shoot And as the lad ran he shot an arrow †Heb. to pass over him beyond him 37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot Jonathan cried after the lad and said Is not the arrow beyond thee 38 And Jonathan cried after the lad Make speed haste stay not And Jonathans lad gathered up the arrows and came to his master 39 But the lad knew not any thing onely Jonathan and David knew the matter 40 And Jonathan gave his †Heb. instruments artillery unto †Heb. that was his his lad and said unto him Go carry them to the city 41 ¶ And assoon as the lad was gone David arose out of a place toward the south and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times and they kissed one another and wept one with another until David exceeded 42 And Jonathan said to David Go in peace ‖ Or the LORD be witness of that which c. forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD saying The LORD be between me and thee and between my seed and thy seed for ever And he arose and departed and Jonathan went into the city CHAP. XXI 1 David at Nob obtaineth of Ahimelech hallowed bread 7 Doeg was present 8 David taketh Goliaths sword 10 David at Gath feigneth himself mad THen came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David and said unto him Why are thou alone and no man with thee 2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest The king hath commanded me a business and hath said unto me Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee and what I have commanded thee and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place 3 Now therefore what is under thine hand give me five loaves of bread in mine hand or what there is †Heb. found present 4 And the priest answered David and said There is no common bread under mine hand but there is * Ex. 25.30 Lev. 24.5 Mat. 12.4 hallowed bread if the young men have kept themselves at least from women 5 And David answered the priest and said unto him Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days since I came out and the vessels of the young men are holy and the bread is in a manner common ‖ Or especially when this day there is other sanctified in the vessel yea though it were sanctified this day in the vessel 6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread for there was no bread there but the shew-bread that was taken from before the LORD to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day detained before the LORD and his name was Doeg an Edomite the chiefest of the herd-men that belonged to Saul 8 ¶ And David said unto Ahimelech And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me because the kings business required haste 9 And the priest said The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in * Chap. 17.2 the valley of Elah behold it is here wrapt in a cloth behinde the ephod if thou wilt take that take it for there is no other save that here And David said There is none like that give it me 10 ¶ And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath. 11 And the servants of Achish said unto him Is not this David the king of the land did they not sing one to another of him in dances saying * Chap 18.7 29.5 Ecclus 47.6 Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands 12 And David laid up these words in his heart and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13 And he changed his behaviour before them and feigned himself mad in their hands and ‖ Or made marks scrabbled on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down upon his beard 14 Then said Achish unto his servants Lo you see the man ‖ Or playeth the mad-man is mad wherefore then have ye brought him unto me 15 Have I need of mad men that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad-man in my presence shall this fellow come into my house CHAP. XXII 1 Companies resort unto David at Adullam 3 At Mizpeh be commendeth his parents unto the king of
neighbour even to David 18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day 19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me the LORD also shall deliver the hoâ—t of Israel into the hand of the Philistines 20 Then Saul †Heb. made â—â—sie and fell with the fulnesâ— of its statute fell straightway all along on the earth and was sore afraid because of the words of Samuel and there was no strength in him for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night 21 ¶ And the woman came unto Saul and saw that he was sore troubled and said unto him Behold thine hand-maid hath obeyed thy voice and I have put my life in my hand and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me 22 Now therefore I pray thee hearken thou also unto the voice of thine hand-maid and let me set a morsel of bread before thee and eat that thou mayest have strength when thou goest on thy way 23 But he refused and said I will not eat but his servants together with the woman compelled him and he hearkened unto their voice so he arose from the earth and sat upon the bed 24 And the woman had a fat cast in the house and she hasted and â—â—â—â—ed it and took flour and kneaded it and did bake unleavened bread thereof 25 And she brought it before Saul and before his servants and they did eat then they rose up and went away that night CHAP. XXIX 1 David marching with the Philistines 2 is disallowed by their princes 6 Achish dâ—smiâ—â—â—th â—â—m with commendations of his fidâ—lity NOw the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in lezreel 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thâ—â—sands but David and his men passed on in the rere-ward with Achish 3 Then said the princes of the Philistines What do these Hebrews here And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines Is not this David the servant of Saul the king of Israel which hath been with me these days or these years and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day 4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him and the princes of the Philistines said unto him * 1 Chr. 11 19. Make this fellow return that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him and let him not go down with us to battel lest in the battel he be an adversary to us for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master should it not be with the heads of these men 5 Is not this David of whom they sang one to another in dances saying * Ch. 18. â— â—l 11. Saul slew his thousands and David his ten thousands 6 ¶ Then Achish called David and said unto him Surely as the LORD liveth thou hast been upright and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day nevertheless †Heb. thou art not God in the eyes of the lords the lords favour thee not 7 Wherefore now return and go in peace that thou †Heb. do not evil in the eyes of the lords displease not the lords of the Philistines 8 ¶ And David said unto Achish But what have I done and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been †Heb. before thee with 〈…〉 this day that I may not go fight against the enemies of my 〈…〉 9 And Achish answered and said to David I know 〈…〉 good in my sight as an angel of God notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said He shall not go up with us to the battel 10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy masters servants that are come with thee and assoon as ye be up early in the morning and have light depart 11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning 〈◊〉 return into the land of the Philistines and the Philistines went up 〈◊〉 Jezreel CHAP. XXX 1 The Amalekites spoil Ziklag â— David asking counsel is encouraged by God to pursue them 11 By the means of a revived Egyptian he is brought to the enemies and recovereth all the spoil 22 Davids law to divide the spoil equally between them that fight and them that keep the stuff 26 He sendeth presents to his friends ANd it came to pass when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day that the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag and smitten Ziklag and burnt it with fire 2 And had taken the women captives that were therein they slew not any either great or small but carried them away and went on their way 3 ¶ So David and his men came to the city and behold it was burnt with fire and their wives and their sons and their daughter were taken captives 4 Then David and the people that were with him lift up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep 5 And Davids two wives were taken captives Ahinoam the Jezreehtess and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite 6 And David was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him because the soul of all the people was †Heb. bitter grieved every man for his sons and for his daughters but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God 7 And David said to Abiathar the priest Ahimelechs son I pray thee bring me hither the ephod and Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David 8 And David enquired at the LORD saying Shall I pursue after this troup shall I overtake them And he answered him Pursue for thou shalt surely overtake them and without fail recover all 9 So David went he and the six hundred men that were with him and came to the brook Besor where those that were left behinde stayed 10 But David pursued he and four hundred men for two hundred abode behinde which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor 11 ¶ And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David and gave him bread and he did eat and they made him drink water 12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins and when he had eaten his spirit came again to him for he had eaten no bread nor drunk any water three days and three nights 13 And David said unto him To whom belongest thou and whence art thou And he said I am a young man of Egypt servant to an Amalekite and my master left me because three days agon I fell sick 14 We made
is brought to a piece of bread and †Heb. the woman of a man or a mans wife the adulteress will hunt for the precious life 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burnt 28 Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burnt 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent 30 Men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfie his soul when he is hungry 31 But if he be found he shall restore seven-fold he shall give all the substance of his house 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh †Heb. bea rt understanding he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away 34 For jealousie is the rage of a man therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance 35 †Heb. he will not accept the faâ—â— of any ransom He will not regard any ransom neither will he rest content though thou givest many gifts CHAP. VII 1 Solomon perswadeth to a sincere and kinde familiarity with wisdom 6 In an example of his own experience he sheweth 10 the cunning of an whore 22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton 24 He deborteth from such wickedness MY son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee 2 Keep my commandments and live and my law as the apple of thine eye 3 * Deut. 6.8 11.18 Chap. 3.3 Binde them upon thy fingers write them upon the table of thine heart 4 Say unto wisdom Thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman 5 * Chap. 5.3 That they may keep thee from the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words 6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement 7 And beheld among the simple ones I discerned among †Heb. the sons the youths a young man void of understanding 8 Passing through the street near her corner and he went the way to her house 9 In the twilight †Heb. in the evening of the day in the evening in the black and dark night 10 And behold there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtle of heart 11 * Chap. 9.13 She is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house 12 Now is she without now in the streets and lieth in wait at every corner 13 So she caught him and kissed him and †Heb. she strengthned her face and said with an impudent face said unto him 14 †Heb. peace-offerings are upon me I have peace-offerings with me this day have I payed my vows 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee 16 I have deckt my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved works with sine linen of Egypt 17 I have persumed my bed with myrth aloes and cinnamon 18 Come let us take our fill of love until the morning let us solace our selves with loves 19 For the good-man is not at home he is gone a long journey 20 He hath taken a bag of money †Heb. in his hand with him and will come home at ‖ Or the new moon the day appointed 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yeeld with the flattering of her lips she forced him 22 He goeth after her †Heb. suddenly straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks 23 Till a dart strike through his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life 24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore O ye children and attend to the words of my mouth 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways go not astray in her paths 26 For she hath cast down many wounded yea many strong men have been slain by her 27 * Ch. 2.18 5.5 Her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death CHAP. VIII 1 The fame 6 and evidence of wisdom 10 The excellency 12 the nature 15 the power 18 the riches 22 and the eternity of wisdom 32 Wisdom is to be desired for the blessedness it bringeth DOth not * Chap. 1.20 wisdom cry and understanding put forth her voice 2 She standeth in the top of high places by the way in the places of the paths 3 She crieth at the gates at the entry of the city at the coming in at the doors 4 Unto you O men I call and my voice is to the sons of man 5 O ye simple understand wisdom and ye fools be ye of an understanding heart 6 Hear for I will speak of excellent things and the opening of my lips shall be right things 7 For my moâ—th shall speak truth and wickedness is †Heb. the abomination of my lips an abomination to my lips 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness there is nothing †Heb. wreathed froward or perverse in them 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth and right to them that finde knowledge 10 Receivâ— my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather then choice gold 11 * Job â—8 15 Psal 19.10 Chap. 3.15 16.16 For wâ—sdom is better then rubies and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it 12 I wisdom dwell with ‖ Or subtilty prudence and finde out knowledge of witty inventions 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate 14 Counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am understanding I have strength 15 By me kings reign and princes decree justice 16 By me princes rule and nobles even all the judges of the earth 17 I love them that love me and those that seek me early shall finde me 18 * Chap. 3.16 Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousness 19 * Chap. 3.14 My fruit is better then gold yea then fine gold and my revenue then choice silver 20 I ‖ Or walk lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgement 21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures 22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old 23 I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water 25 Before the mountains were settled before the hills was I brought forth 26 While as yet he had not made the earth nor the ‖ Or open plain fields nor ‖ Or the chief part the highest part of the dust of the world 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there when he set ‖ Or a
come for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities 28 But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me I will tell thee for the evil is sown but the destruction thereof is not yet come 29 If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away then cannot it come that is sown with good 30 For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time and how much shall it yet bring forth until the ‖ Or floor time of threshing come 31 Ponder now by thyself how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed hath brought forth 32 And when the ears shall be cut down which are without number how great a floor shall they fill 33 Then I answered and said How and when shall these things come to pass wherefore are our years few and evil 34 And he answered me saying Do not thou hasten above the most Highest for thy haste is in vain to be above him for thou hast much exceeded 35 Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers saying How long shall I hope on this fashion when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward 36 And unto these things ‖ Or Jeremiel Uriel the archangel gave them answer and said Even when the number of seeds is filled in you for he hath weighed the world in the balance 37 By measure hath he measured the times and by number hath he numbred the times and he doth not move nor stir them until the said measure be fulfilled 38 Then answered I and said O Lord that bearest rule even we all are full of impiety 39 And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth 40 So he answered me and said Go thy way to a woman with childe and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine moneths if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her 41 Then said I No Lord that can she not And he said unto me In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman 42 For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them 43 From the beginning look what thou desirest to see it shall be shewed thee 44 Then answered I and said If I have found favour in thy sight and if it be possible and if I be meet therefore 45 Shew me then whether there be more to come then is past or more past then is to come 46 What is past I know but what is for to come I know not 47 And he said unto me Stand up upon the right side and I shall expound the similitude unto thee 48 So I stood and saw and behold an hot burning oven passed by before me and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked and behold the smoke remained still 49 After this there passed by before me a watery cloud and sent down much rain with a storm and when the stormy rain was past the drops remained still 50 Then said he unto me Consider with thyself as the rain is more then the drops and as the fire is greater then the smoke but the drops and the smoke remain behinde so the ‖ Or measure quantity which is past did more exceed 51 Then I prayed and said May I live thinkest thou until that time or ‖ Or who shall be Manuscript what shall happen in those days 52 He answered me and said As for the tokens whereof thou askest me I may tell thee of them in part but as touching thy life I am not sent to shew thee for I do not know it CHAP. V. 1 The signes of the â—â—mes to come 23 He asketh why God choosing but one people did cast them off 30 He is taught that Gods judgements are unsearchable 46 and that God doeth not all at once NEvertheless as concerning the tokens behold the days shall come that they which dwell upon earth ‖ Or shall be found with great wealth shall be taken in a great number and the way of truth shall be hidden and the land shall be barren of faith 2 But * Matth. 2â— 12 iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou seest or that thou hast heard long ago 3 And the land ‖ Or that thou â—â—eadest upon and seest that thou seest now to have root shalt thou see wasted suddenly 4 But if the most High grant thee to live thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night and the moon thrice in the day 5 And bloud shall drop out of the wood and the stone shall give his voice and the people shall be troubled 6 And even he shall rule whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth and the fowls shall take their flight away together 7 And the Sodomitish sea shall cast out fish and make a noise in the night which many have not known but they shall all hear the voice thereof 8 There shall be a confusion also in many places and the fire shall be oft ‖ Or stoked sent out again and the wilde beasts shall change their places and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters 9 And salt waters shall be sound in the sweet and all friends shall destroy one another then shall wit hide it self and understanding withdraw it sell into his secret chamber 10 And shall be sought of many and yet not be sound then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplyed upon earth 11 One land also shall ask another and say Is righteousness that maketh a man righteous gone through thee And it shall say No. 12 At the same time shall men hope but nothing obtain they shall labour but their ways shall not ‖ Or be dirested prosper 13 To shew thee such tokens I have leave and if thou wilt pray again and weep as now and fast seven days thou shalt hear yet greater things 14 Then I awaked and an extreme fearfulness went through all my body and my minde was troubled so that it sainted 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me comforted me and set me up upon my feet 16 And in the second night it came to pass that Salathiel the captain of the people came unto me saying Where hast thou been and why is thy countenance so heavy 17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity 18 Up then and eat bread and forsake us not as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of cruel wolves 19 Then said I unto him Go thy ways from me
the truth witnessâ—th 24 O hear the prayer of thy servant and give ear to the petition of thy creature 25 For while I live I will speak and so long as I have understanding I will answer 26 O look not upon the sins of thy people but on them which serve thee in truth 27 Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions 28 Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before thee but remember them which according to thy will have known thy fear 29 Let it not be thy will to destroy them which have lived like beasts but to look upon them that have clearly taught thy law 30 Take thou no indignation at them which are deemed worse then beasts but love them that alway put their trust in thy righteousness and glory 31 For we and our fathers ‖ Or are sick do languish of such diseases but because of us sinners thou shalt be called merciful 32 For if thou ‖ Or be willing hast a desire to have mercy upon us thou shalt be called merciful to us namely that have no works of righteousness 33 For the just which have many good works laid up with thee shall out of their own deeds receive reward 34 For what is man that thou shouldest take displeasure at him or what is a corruptible generation that thou shouldest be so bitter toward it 35 * 1 King 8.46 2 Chr. 6.36 For in truth there is no man among them that be born but he hath dealt wickedly and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss 36 For in this O Lord thy righteousness and thy goodness shall be declared if thou be merciful unto them which have not the ‖ Or substance confidence of good works 37 Then answered he me and said Some things hast thou spoken aright and according unto thy words it shall be 38 For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them which have sinned before death before judgement before destruction 39 But * Gen. 4.4 I will rejoyce over the disposition of the righteous and I will remember also their pilgrimage and the salvation and the reward that they shall have 40 Like as I have spoken now so shall it come to pass 41 For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground and planteth many trees and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up neither doth all that is planted take root even so is it of them that are sown in the world they shall not all be saved 42 I answered then and said If I have found grace let me speak 43 Like as the husbandmans seed perisheth if it come not up and receive not thy rain in due season or if there come too much rain and corrupt it 44 Even so perisheth man also which is formed with thy hands and is called thine own image because thou art like unto him for whose sake thou hast made all things and likened him unto the husbandmans seed 45 Be not wroth with us but spare thy people and have mercy upon thine own inheritance for thou art merciful unto thy creature 46 Then answered he me and said Things present are for the present and things to come for such as be to come 47 For thou comest far short that thou shouldest be able to love my creature more then I but I have oft-times drawn nigh unto thee and unto it but never to the unrighteous 48 In this also thou art marvellous before the most High 49 In that thou hast humbled thy self as it becometh thee and hast not judged thy self worthy to be much glorified among the righteous 50 For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world because they have walked in great pride 51 But understand thou for thy self and seek out the glory for such as be like thee 52 For unto you is paradise opened the tree of life is planted the time to come is prepared plenteousness is made ready a city is builded and rest is allowed yea perfect goodness and wisdom 53 The root of evil is sealed up from you weakness and the moth is hid from you and corruption is fled into ‖ Or the grave hell to be forgotten 54 Sorrows are passed and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality 55 And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish 56 For when they had taken liberty they despised the most High thought scorn of his law and forsook his ways 57 Moreover they have troden down his righteous 58 And * Ps 14. â— and 53.1 said in their heart that there is no God yea and that knowing they must die 59 For as the things aforesaid shall receive you so thirst and pain are prepared for them for it was not his will that men should come to nought 60 But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them 61 And therefore is my judgement now at hand 62 These things have I not shewed unto all men but unto thee and a few like thee Then answered I and said 63 Behold O Lord now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the wonders which thou wilt begin to do in the last times but at what time thou hast not shewed me CHAP. IX 7 Who shall be saved and who not 10 All the world is now corrupted 22 yet God doth save a few 33 He complaineth that those perish which keep Gods law 38 and seeth a woman lamenting in a field HE answered me then and said Measure thou the time diligently in it self and when thou seest part of the signs past which I have told thee before 2 Them shalt thou understand that it is the very same time wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made 3 Therefore when there shall be seen * Matth. 14.7 earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world 4 Then shalt thou well understand that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee even from the beginning 5 For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end and the end is manifest 6 Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonders and powerful works and endings in effects and signs 7 And every one that shall be saved and shall be able to escape by his works and by saith whereby ye have beleeved 8 Shall be preserved from the said perils and shall see my salvation in my sand and within my borders for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning 9 Then ‖ Or. they shall marvel shall they be in pitiful case which now have abused my ways and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments 10 For such as in their
utterly ‖ Or abolished rooted out 11 Who then should make more mourning then she that hath lost so great a multitude and not thou which art sorry but for one 12 But if thou sayest unto me My lamentation is not like the earths because I have lost the fruit of my womb which I brought forth with pains and bare with sorrows 13 ‖ But the earth after the manner of the earth whereinto the present multitude is gone again as it came out But the earth not so for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone as it came 14 Then say I unto thee Like as thou hast brought forth with labour even so the earth also hath given her fruit namely man ever since the beginning unto him that made her 15 Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thy self and bear with a good courage that which hath be faln thee 16 For it thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just thou shalt both receive thy son in time and shalt be commended amongst women 17 Go thy way then into the city to thine husband 18 And she said unto me That will I not do I will not go into the city but here will I die 19 So I proceeded to speak further unto her and said 20 Do not so but be counselled by me for how many are the adversities of Sion be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem 21 For thou seest that our sanctuary is said waste our altar broken down our temple destroyed 22 Our psaltery is laid on the ground our song is put to silence our rejoycing is at an end the light of our candlestick is put out the ark of our covenant is spoiled our holy things are defiled and the name that is called upon us is almost profaned our children are put to shame our priests are burnt our Levites are gone into captivity our virgins are defiled and our wives ravished our righteous men carried away our little ones destroyed our young men are brought in bondage and our strong men are become weak 23 And which is the greatest of all the seal of Sion hath now lost her honour for she is delivered into the hands of them that hate us 24 And therefore shake off thy great heaviness and put away the multitude of sorrows that the Mighty may be merciful unto thee again and the Highest shall give thee rest and ease from thy labour 25 And it came to pass while I was talking with her behold her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly and her countenance glistered so that I was afraid of her and mused what it might be 26 And behold suddenly she made a great cry very fearful so that the earth shook at the noise of the woman 27 And I looked and behold the woman appeared unto me no more but there was a city builded and a large place shewed it self from the foundations then was I afraid and cried with a loud voice and said 28 Where is * Ch. 4.1 Uriel the angel who came unto me at the first for he hath caused me to fall ‖ Or into the multitude in a trance into many trances and mine end is turned into corruption and my prayer to rebuke 29 And as I was speaking these words behold he came unto me and looked upon me 30 And so I say as one that had been dead and mine understanding was taken from me and he took me by the right hand and comforted me and set me upon my feet and said unto me 31 What aileth thee and why art thou so disquieted and why is thine understanding troubled and the thoughts of thine heart 32 And I said Because thou hast forsaken me and yet I did according to thy * Chap 5.20 words and I went into the field and so I have seen and yet see that I am not able to express 33 And he said unto me Stand up manfully and I will advise thee 34 Then said I Speak on my lord in me onely forsake me not lest I die frustrate of my hope 35 For I have seen that I knew not and hear that I do not know 36 Or is my sense deceived or my soul in a dream 37 Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt shew thy servant of this ‖ Or trance vision 38 He answered me then and said Hear me and I shall inform thee and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee 39 He hath seen that thy ‖ Or purpose way is right for that thou sorrowest continually for thy people and makest great lamentation for Sion 40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest 41 Thou sawest a woman mourning and thou beganst to comfort her 42 But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more but there appeared unto thee a city builded 43 And whereas she told thee of the death of her son this is the ‖ Or interpretation solution 44 This woman whom thou sawest is Sion and whereas she said unto thee even she whom thou seest as a city builded 45 Whereas I say she said unto thee that she hath been thirty years barren those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her 46 But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings and then bare the barren a son 47 And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour that was the dwelling in Jerusalem 48 But whereas she said unto thee That my son coming into his marriage-chamber hapned to have a fall and died this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem 49 And behold thou sawest her likeness and because she mourned for her son thou beganst to comfort her and of these things which have chanced these are to be opened unto thee 50 For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly and sufferest from thy whole heart for her so hath he shewed thee the brightness of her glory and the comeliness of her beauty 51 And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house was builded 52 For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee 53 Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field where no foundation of any building was 54 For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his city there can no mans building be able to stand 55 And therefore sear not let not thine heart he affrighted but go thy way in and see the beauty and greatness of the building as much as thine eyes be able to see 56 And then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may comprehend 57 For thou art blessed above many other and ‖ Or at called to be with c. art called with the Highest and so are but few 58 But to morrow at night thou shalt remain here 59 And so shall the Highest shew thee visions of the ‖ Or
man of understanding get thee betimes unto him and let thy foot wear the steps of his door 37 Let thy minde be upon the ordinances of the Lord and * Psal 1.2 meditate continually in his commandments he shall establish thine heart and give thee wisdom at thine own desire CHAP. VII 1 We are deborted from sin 4 from ambition 8 presumption 10 and fainting in prayer 12 from lying and backbiting 18 How to esteem a friend 19 a good wife 20 a servant 22 our cattel 23 our children and parents 31 the Lord and his priests 32 the poor and those that mourn DO no evil so shall no harm come unto thee 2 Depart from the unjust and iniquity shall turn away from thee 3 My son sowe not upon the furrows of unrighteousness and thou shalt not reap them seven-fold 4 Seek not of the Lord preeminence neither of the king the seat of honour 5 * Job 9.10 Ps 142.2 Eccl. 7.16 Luke 18.11 Justify not thy self before the Lord and boast not of thy wisdom before the king 6 Seek not to be judge being not able to take away iniquity lest at any time thou sear the person of the mighty and lay a stumbling-block in the way of thy uprightness 7 Offend not against the multitude of a city and then thou shalt not cast thy self down among the people 8 Binde not one sin upon another for in one thou shalt not be unpunished 9 Say not God will look upon the multitude of my oblations and when I offer to the most high God he will accept it 10 Be not faint-hearted when thou makest thy prayer and neglect not to give aims 11 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul for there is one which humbleth and exalteth 12 †Gr. plow not Devise not a lie against thy brother neither do the like to thy friend 13 Use not to make any manner of lie for the custom thereof is not good 14 Use not many words in a multitude of elders * Matth. 6.5 â— and make not ‖ Or vanâ— repetition much babâ—ling when thou prayest 15 Hate not laborious worâ— neither husbandry which the most High hath †Gr. created ordained 16 Number not thy self among the multitude of sinners but remember that wrath will not tarry long 17 Humble thy soul greatly for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms 18 Change not a friend for any good by no means neither a faithful brother for the gold of Ophir 19 Forgo not a wise and good woman for her grace is above gold 20 * Lev. 19.13 Whereas thy servant worketh truly entreat him not evil nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee 21 Let thy soul love a good servant and defraud him not of liberty 22 * Deut. 25.4 Hast thou cattel have an eye to them and if they be for thy profit keep them with thee 23 Hast thou children instruct them and bow down their neck from their youth 24 Hast thou daughters have a care of their body and shew not thy sell cheerful toward them 25 Marry thy daughter and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter but give her to a man of understanding 26 Hast thou a wife after thy minde forsake her not but give not thy self over to a ‖ Or hateful light woman 27 Honour thy father with thy whole heart and forget not the sorrows of thy mother 28 Remember that thou wast begot of them and how canst thou recompenâ—e them the things that they have done for thee 29 Fear the Lord with all thy soul and reverence his priests 30 Love him that made thee with all thy strength and forsake not his ministers 31 Fear the Lord and honour the priest and give him his portion as it is commanded thee the first fruits and the trespass-offering and the gift of the shoulders and the sacrifice of sanctification and the first-fruits of the holy things 32 * Deut. 15.10 And stretch thine hand unto the poor that ‖ Or thy liberality thy blessing may be perfected 33 A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living and for the dead detain it not 34 Fail not to be with them that weep and mourn with them that mourn 35 Be not slow to visit the sick for that shall make thee to be beloved 36 Whatsoever thou takest in hand remember the end and thou shalt never do amiss CHAP. VIII 1 Whom we may not strive with 8 nor despise 10 nor provoke 15 nor have to do with STrive not with a mighty man lest thou fall into his hands 2 * Mat. 5.25 Be not at variance with a rich man lest he overweigh thee for gold * Ch. 31.6 hath destroyed many and perverted the hearts of kings 3 Strive not with a man that is ‖ Or of an evil tongue full of tongue and heap not wood upon his fire 4 Jest not with a rude man lest thy ancestours be disgraced 5 * 1 Cor. 2.6 Gal. 6.2 Reproach not a man that turneth from sin but remember that we are all worthy of punishment 6 * Lev. 19.31 Dishonour not a man in his old age for even some of us wax old 7 Rejoyce not over thy greatest enemy being dead but remember that we die all 8 Despise not the discourse of the wise but acquaint thy self with their proverbs for of them thou shalt learn instruction and how to serve great men with ease 9 Miss not the discourse of the elders for they also learned of their fathers and of them thou shalt learn understanding and to give answer as need requireth 10 Kindle not the coals of a sinner lest thou be burnt with the flame of his fire 11 Rise not up in anger at the presence of an injurious person lest he lie in wait ‖ Or fâ—â— thy â—â—â—th to entrap thee in thy words 12 Lend not unto him that is mightier then thy self for if thou sendest him count it but lost 13 Be not surety above thy power for if thou be surely take care to pay it 14 Go not to law with a judge for they will judge for him according to his ‖ Or opinion honour 15 * Gen. 4.8 Travel not by the way with a hold fellow lest he become grievous unto thee for he will do according to his own will and thou shalt perish with him through his folly 16 * Prov. â—2 24 Strive not with an angry man and go not with him into a solitary place for bloud is as nothing in his sight and where there is no help he will overthrow thee 17 Consult not with a fool for he cannot keep counsel 18 Do no secret thing before a stranger for thou knowest not what he will bring forth 19 Open not thine heart to every man lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn CHAP. IX 1 We are advised how to use our wives 3 What women to avoid 10
21.19 I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon then to keep house with a wicked woman 17 The wickedness of a woman changeth her face and darkeneth her countenance ‖ Or like a beaâ— like sackcloth 18 Her husband shall sit among his neighbours and when he heareth it shall sigh bitterly 19 All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman let the portion of a sinner fall upon her 20 As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged so is a wife * Or scolding full of words to a quiet man 21 * 2 Sam. 11.2 Ch. 42 1â— Stumble not at the beauty of a woman and desire her not for pleasure 22 A woman if she maintain her husband is full of anger impudency and much reproach 23 A wicked woman abateth the courage maketh an heaviâ— countenance and a wounded heart a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees 24 Of * Gen â— â— 1 Tim. 2.14 the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die 25 Give the water no passage neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad 26 If she go not as thou wouldest have her cut her off from thy flesh and give her a bill of divorce and let her go CHAP. XXVI 1 A good wife 4 and a good conscience do glad men 6 A wicked wife is a fearful thing 13 Of good and bad wives 28 Of three things that are grievous 29 Merehants and buksters are not without sin BLessed is the man that hath a vertuous wife for the number of his days shall be double 2 A vertuous woman rejoyceth her husband and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace 3 A good wife is a good portion which shall be given in the portion of them that fear the Lord. 4 Whether a man be rich or poor if he have a good heart toward the Lord he shall at all times rejoyce with a cheerful countenance 5 There be three things that mine heart feareth and for the fourth I was sore afraid †Gr. an evil report the slander of a city the gathering together of an unruly multitude and a false accusation all these are worse then death 6 But a grief of heart sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all 7 An evil wife is ‖ Or a yoke of oâ—en a yoke shaken to and fro he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion 8 A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger and she will not cover her own shame 9 The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eye-lids 10 * Chap. 42.11 If thy daughter be shameless keep her in straitly lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty 11 Watch over an impudent eye and marvel not if she trespass against thee 12 She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain and drink of every water near her by every ‖ Or stake hedge will she sit down and open her quiver against everâ— arrow 13 The grace of a wife delighteth her husband and her discretion will fat his bones 14 A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord and there is nothing so much worth as a minde well instructed 15 A shamefacâ—d and faithful woman is a double grace and her continent minde cannot be valued 16 As the sun when it ariseth †Gr. in the highest places of the Lord. in the high heaven so is the beauty of a good wife in the ‖ Or ornament ordering of her house 17 As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick so is the beauty of the face ‖ Or in constant age in ripe age 18 As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver so are the ‖ Or comely fair feet with a constant ‖ Or breast heart 19 My son keep the flower of thine age sound and give not thy strength to strangers 20 When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the field sowe it with thine own seed trusting in the goodness of thy stock 21 So thy race which thou leavest shall be magnified having the confidence of their good descent 22 An harlot shall be accounted as ‖ Or a swinâ— spittle but a married woman is a towre against death to her husband 23 A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man but a godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord. 24 A dishonest woman contemneth shame but an honest woman will reverence her husband 25 A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog but she that is shamefac'd will fear the Lord. 26 A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all but she that dishonoureth him in her pride-shall be counted ungodly of all 27 A loud-crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive away the enemies 28 There be two things that grieve my heart and the third maketh me angry a man of war that suffereth poverty and men of understanding that are not set by and one that returneth from righteousness to sin the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword 29 A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong and an huckster shall not be freed from sin CHAP. XXVII 1 Of sins in selling and buying 7 Our speech will tell what is in us 16 A friend is lest by discovering his secrets 25 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it MAny * Prov. 28.21 have sinned for ‖ Or a thing indifferent a small matter and he that * Pro. 23.4 1 Tim. 6.9 seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away 2 As a nail sticketh fast between the joynings of the stones so doth sin stick close between buying and selling 3 Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord his house shall soon be overthrown 4 As when one sifteth with a sieve the refuse remaineth so the filth of man in his ‖ Or thought talk 5 * Prov. 27.21 The furnace proveth the potters vessels so the trial of man is in his reasoning 6 * Mat. 7.17 The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man 7 Praise no man before thou hearest him speak for this is the trial of men 8 If thou followest righteousness thou shalt obtain her and put her on as a glorious long robe 9 The birds will resort unto their like so will truth return unto them that practise in her 10 As the lion lieth in wait for the prey so sin for them that work iniquity 11 The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom but a fool changeth as the moon 12 If thou be among the â—ndiscreet observe the time but be continually among men of
unto death or of obedience unto righteousness 17 But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine †Gr. whereto ye were delivered which was delivered you 18 Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yeelded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yeeld your members servants to righteousness unto holiness 20 For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free †Gr. to righteousness from righteousness 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life 23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII 1 No law hath power over a man longer then he liveth 4 But we are dead to the law 7 Yet is not the law sin 12 but holy just good 16 as I acknowledge who am grieved because I cannot keep it KNow ye not brethren for I speak to them that know the law how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth 2 For * 1 Cor. 7.39 the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband 3 So then if while her husband liveth she be married to another man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man 4 Wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God 5 For when we were in the flesh the †Gr. passions motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death 6 But now we are delivered from the law ‖ Or being dead to that that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter 7 What shall we say then Is the law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known ‖ Or concupiscence lust except the law had said * Ex. 20.17 Deut. 5.21 Thou shalt not cover 8 But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence For without the law sin was dead 9 For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death 11 For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me 12 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me God forbid But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful 14 For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal sold under sin 15 For that which I do I †Gr. know allow not for what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not I consent unto the law that it is good 17 Now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 18 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I finde not 19 For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do 20 Now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 21 I finde then a law that when I would do good evil is present with me 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man 23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my minde and bringing me into â—aptivity to the law of sin which is in my members 24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from ‖ Or this body of death the body of this death 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the minde I my self serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin CHAP. VIII 1 They that are in Christ and live according to the Spirit are free from condemnation 5 13 What harm cometh of the flesh 6 14 and what good of the Spirit 17 and what of being Gods children 19 whose glorious deliverance all things long for 29 It was beforehand dâ—creed from God 38 What can sever us from his love THere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and ‖ Or by a sacrifice for sin for sin condemned sin in the flesh 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 5 For they that are after the flesh do minde the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit 6 For †Gr. the minding of the flesh to be carnally minded is death but †Gr. the minding of the Spirit to be spiritually minded is life and peace 7 Because †Gr. the minding of the flesh the carnal minde is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his 10 And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies ‖ Or because of his Spirit by his Spirit that dwelleth in you 12 Therefore brethren we are debters not to
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils ye cannot be partakers of the Lords table and of the table of devils 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger then he 23 All things are lawful for me but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me but all things edifie not 24 Let no man seek his own but every man anothers wealth 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat asking no question for conscience sake 26 For * Deut. 10.14 Psal 24.1 the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof 27 If any of them that beleeve not bid you to a feast and ye be disposed to go whatsoever is set before you eat asking no question for conscience sake 28 But if any man say unto you This is offered in sacrifice unto idols eat not for his sake that shewed it and for conscience sake For * Deut. 10.14 Psal 24.1 the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof 29 Conscience I say not thine own but of the others for why is my liberty judged of another mans conscience 30 For if I by ‖ Or thanksgiving grace be a partaker why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks 31 * Col. 3.17 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God 32 * 2 Cor. 6.3 Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the †Gr. Greeks Gentiles nor to the church of God 33 Even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved CHAP. XI 1 He reproveth them because in holy assemblies 4 their men prayed with their heads covered and 6 women with their heads uncovered 17 and because generally their meetings were not for the better but for the worse as 21 namely in profaning with their own feasts the Lords supper 23 Lastly he calleth them to the first institution thereof BE ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ 2 Now I praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the ‖ Or traditions ordinances as I delivered them to you 3 But I would have you know that * Eph. 5 2â— the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God 4 Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven 6 For if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be covered 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head forasmuch as * Gen. 1 2â— he is the image and glory of God but the woman is the glory of the man 8 For the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man 9 * Gen. 2.23 Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man 10 For this cause ought the woman to have ‖ That is a covering in signe that she is under the power of her husband power on her head because of the angels 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman neither the woman without the man in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man even so is the man also by the woman but all things of God 13 Judge in yourselves is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered 14 Doth not even nature it self teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him 15 But if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a ‖ Or vail covering 16 But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom neither the churches of God 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not that you come together not for the better but for the worse 18 For first of all when ye come together in the church I hear that there be ‖ Or. schisms divisions among you and I partly beleeve it 19 For there must be also ‖ Or sectâ— heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you 20 When ye come together therefore into one place ‖ Or ye cannot eat this is not to eat the Lords supper 21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken 22 What have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise ye the church of God and shame ‖ Or them that are poor them that have not What shall I say to you shall I praise you in this I praise you not 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread 24 * Matth. 26.26 Mark 13.22 Luke â—2 19 And when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do ‖ Or for a remembrance in remembrance of me 25 After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying This cup is the new testament in my bloud this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me 26 For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ‖ Or shew ye ye do shew the Lords death till he come 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body bloud of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh ‖ Or judgement damnation to himself not discerning the Lords body 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep 31 For if we would judge our selves we should not be judged 32 But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 33 Wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry one for another 34 And if any man hunger let him eat at home that ye come not together unto ‖ Or judgement condemnation And the rest will I set in order when I come CHAP. XII 1 Spiritual gifts 4 are divers 7 yet all to profit withal 8 and to that end are diversly bestowed 12 that by the like proportion as the members of a natural body tend all to the 16 mutual decency 22 service and 26 succour of the same body 27 so we should do one for another to make up the mystical body of Christ NOw concerning spiritual gifts brethren I would not
shalt not sowe thy field with mingled seed neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee 20 ¶ And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that is a bond-maid ‖ Or abused by any †Heb. reproached by or for man betrothed to an husband and not at all redeemed nor freedom given her ‖ Or they †Heb. there shall be a scourging she shall be scourged they shall not be put to death because she was not free 21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation even a ram for a trespass-offering 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him 23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the land and shall have planted all manner of trees for food then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you it shall not be eaten of 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be †Heb. holiness of praises to the LORD holy to praise the LORD withal 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof that it may yeeld unto you the increase thereof I am the LORD your God 26 ¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the bloud neither shall ye use inchantment nor observe times 27 * Chap. 21.5 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard 28 Ye shall not * Deu. 14. â— make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you I am the LORD 29 ¶ Do not †Heb. profane prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary I am the LORD 31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them I am the LORD your God 32 ¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoâ—ry head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God I am the LORD 33 ¶ And * Exod. 22.21 if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land ye shall not ‖ Or oppress vex him 34 * Exod. 23.9 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born amongst you and thou shalt love him as thy self for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt I am the LORD your God 35 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement in mete-yard in weight or in measure 36 * Prov. 11.1 16.11 20.10 Juâ—t balances just †Heb. stones weights a just ephah and a just hin shall ye have I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes and all my judgements and do them I am the LORD CHAP. XX. 1 Of him that giveth of his seed to Molech 4 Of him that favoureth such an one 6 Of going to wizards 7 Of sanctification 9 Of him that curseth his parents 10 Of adultery 11 14 17 19 Of incest 13 Of Sodomy 15 Of bestiality 18 Of uncleanness 22 Obedience is required with holiness 27 Wizards must be put to death ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 * Chap. 18.21 Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel Whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel that giveth any of his seeâ— unto Molech he shall surely be put to death the people of the land shall stone him with stones 3 And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he hath given of his seed unto Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man when he giveth of his seed unto Molech and kill him not 5 Then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech from among their people 6 ¶ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards to go a whoring after them I will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people 7 ¶ * Chap. 11.44 19.2 1 Pet. 1.16 Sanctifie your selves therefore and be ye holy for I am the LORD your God 8 And ye shall keep my statutes and do them I am the LORD which sanctifie you 9 ¶ * Ex. 21.17 Prov. 20.20 Mat. 15.4 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death he hath cursed his father or his mother his bloud shall be upon him 10 ¶ And * Deut. 22.22 Joh. 8.4 5. the man that committeth adultery with another mans wife even be that committeth adultery with his neighbours wife the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death 11 * Chap. 18.8 And the man that lieth with his fathers wife hath uncovered his fathers nakedness both of them shall surely be put to death their bloud shall be upon them 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law both of them shall surely be put to death they have wrought confusion their bloud shall be upon them 13 * Chap. 18.22 If a man also lie with mankinde as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their bloud shall be upon them 14 And if a man take a wife her mother it is wickedness they shall be burnt with fire both he and they that there be no wickedness among you 15 * Chap. 18.23 And if a man lie with a beast he shall surely be put to death and ye shall slay the beast 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast and lie down thereto thou shalt kill the woman and the beast they shall surely be put to death their bloud shall be upon them 17 * Chap. 18.9 And if a man shall take his sister his fathers daughter or his mothers daughter and see her nakedness and she see his nakedness it is a wicked thing and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people he hath uncovered his sisters nakedness he shall bear his iniquity 18 * Chap. 18 19. And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness and shall uncover her nakedness he hath †Heb. made naked discovered her fountain and she hath uncovered the fountain of her bloud and both of them shall be cut off from among their people 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mothers sister